what about dropping rest-lists?

When thinking of single-value return as just a case of multiple-value
return, I like the clean syntactic symmetry between:
(let ( (a (foo)) ) ...)
and:
(let ( (a b c (bar)) ) ...)
The "values" keyword as a kludge to support rest-lists, however, strikes
me as a syntactically ugly way to support an operation that I'd expect
to use only rarely.
If rest-lists are to be supported, I'd like a cleaner syntax. What that
syntax should be, I have no good suggestion. The historical syntax of
the single-value binding clause of "let" precludes good syntactic
symmetry with "lambda"'s argument syntax, and it also adds extra parens
to the most common case, which is a single-value binding:
(let ( ((a) (foo)) ) ...)
(let ( ((a b c) (bar)) ) ...)
(let ( (x (bar)) ) ...)
In summary, I'd really like to see "let", "let*", "letrec", and
"letrec*" extended for multiple-value, but would like to drop the
"(value ...)" syntax, even if that means dropping rest-list support.
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